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Kieran Setiya · 13 Dec 2025

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    Thinking of yourself as art's medium rather than its source frees you from the inhibition of art as self-expression.

    Their wordsOne of Johnstone’s most profound ideas, I think, is that we are inhibited by the idea of art as “self-expression”—and that we can disinhibit ourselves by thinking of ourselves as its medium, not its source.

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